Brazile: I Found ‘No Evidence’ That Dem Primaries Were ‘Rigged’

Democratic party chairperson Donna Brazile talks with audience members before the debate between Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Pool via AP)
Democratic party chairperson Donna Brazile talks with audience members before the debate between Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine at Longwoo... Democratic party chairperson Donna Brazile talks with audience members before the debate between Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Pool via AP) MORE LESS
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Donna Brazile, the former interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), on Sunday said she found no evidence “whatsoever” that the 2016 primary process was “rigged.”

“I found no evidence, none whatsoever,” Brazile said on ABC News’ “This Week.”

Brazile claimed the only thing she found “was this memorandum that prevented the DNC from running its own operation.”

In a piece in Politico on Tuesday, Brazile accused Hillary Clinton’s campaign of exerting improper financial and decision-making control over the DNC before she won the party’s nomination.

Asked on Sunday to comment on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) claim that the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged for Clinton, Brazile said, “I don’t think she meant the word rigged.”

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  1. Wait, WHAT!?

  2. Is she old friends with Ed Gillespie by any chance ?

  3. Avatar for rick_b rick_b says:

    My first question when reading the original base story of Donna Brazile’s attack on the Democratic Party primary process by Hillary was whether the reporter writing this piece originally was doing an hit job on the Democrats.

    Looks like I was right to ask. He or she was doing a hit job instead of reporting.

    This hit job is the story, not Hillary’s alleged wrongdoing.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Very poor choice of words on Brazile’s part. Makes we wonder how she ever rose to interim chairwoman of the DNC. And as much as I like and respect Senator Warren, I thought her response was intemperate as well. And all this just a few days before the big VA gubernatorial election. Who needs Comey when Dems are so good at shooting themselves in the foot? When will we ever learn?

  5. I’ve always had quite a bit of respect for Donna Brazile, but this seems to be friendly fire by using an uzi. Donna, what of your (supposed) call to Bernie, informing him you’d found the evidence of a rigging? And, Elizabeth Warren, wtf?

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